Abstract

Teaching reading comprehension to the students is not easy. The teacher often finds a lot of students’ learning motivation problems from the students. The students’ problems are (1) students’ interest, (2) students’ effort, (3) self responsibility activity or persistence, (4) students’ optimal experiences; (5) reinforcement and teacher's method. One of the efforts to minimize the problems is by empowering the students in the learning process. One of the teaching techniques that can empower learners is Reciprocal Teaching Method. An action research was carried out and aimed at finding out whether Reciprocal teaching can improve the students’ learning motivation in reading comprehension in classroom when the teacher applies reciprocal teaching. Two cycles are applied. The data are taken by observing the learning process when an action is applied, by interviewing the learners involved, by giving questionnaires and by conducting interview. The finding of the research shows that Reciprocal Teaching Method can improve the students’ learning motivation in reading comprehension when it is applied.

Highlights

  • English is taught in every level of education and various of departements

  • To enhance the quality of the process, the teacher needs to pay a great attention on the learning process

  • The research was done at Mechanical Engineering Students 1st Semester of STTR Cepu

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Introduction

English is taught in every level of education and various of departements. It is taught in Mechanical Engineering Departement of STTR Cepu. Experienced teachers know very well the problems faced by the students in learning English as a Foreign Language. Learning motivation is the problem faced by the students, especially for Mechanical Engineering Students of STTR Cepu. The researcher conducted a pre questionnaire to the students related to their problems.

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